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Searches for dark matter particles have come up empty so far, driving theorists to get more creative with their ideas.

Tory Bruno, who recently stepped down as chief executive of United Launch Alliance, is joining Blue Origin as head of the companys new national security business unit. The post Former ULA chief Bruno joins Blue Origin ap...

While space is often referred to as a vacuum, it isn't completely empty.

NASAs Perseverance Mars rover is continuing its mission to collect samples despite uncertainty about how, when or even if those samples will be returned to Earth. The post Perseverance continues science mission amid unce...

As another year comes to an end, we sit down and collect our thoughts on the best sci-fi and space video games of 2025.

After nearly 12 years leading the United Launch Alliance (ULA), its chief Tory Bruno is stepping down from the U.S. rocket launch provider to pursue "another opportunity," the company announced this week.

In this Oct. 20, 2025, photo, tiny ball bearings surround a larger central bearing during the Fluid Particles experiment, conducted inside the Microgravity Science Glovebox (MSG) aboard the International Space Stations D...

It marks the first time newly commissioned Space Force Guardians have graduated Officer Training School (OTS) wearing this uniform.

Even most rocket scientists would rather avoid hard math when they dont have to do it. So when it comes to figuring out orbits in complex three-body systems, like those in Cis-lunar space, which is between the Earth and ...

Ready for another amazing year of skywatching? 2025 was a wild year, with a steady parade of comets knocking on naked eye visibility, and one extra special interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS. The sky just keeps on turning into...

New discoveries and fresh looks at familiar worlds show how far exoplanet science has come - and how much remains unknown.

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most powerful explosions in the universe, second only to the Big Bang. The majority of these bursts are observed to flash and fade within a few seconds to minutes. But on 2 July 2025...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In a matter of hours, the gravitational monster whipped up powerful winds, flinging material out ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an international team of astronomers has observed an elliptical galaxy known as NGC 4486B. Results of the observational campaign, published Dec. 16 on the arXiv preprint serve...